Engineers Go Global
U.S. engineering students and professionals are taking their skills and enthusiasm around the world through EWB-USA. More than 40 EWBs in other countries also have their own active or developing projects. Wipe-off board in Bernard Amadei’s office is one nexus of the expanding activity.

Mexico
Carroll’s EWB-USA chapter is also helping a Catholic orphanage near Mexico City develop a water-reuse project for its 300 children that will provide an income and ensure sustainability in the future.

Guatemala
Wisconsin-based EWB-USA students and professionals are uniting Mayan communities with bridges built to U.S. standards that will allow commerce and education even when river levels are high.

India
Gaining support of local “clients” is key to project sustainability for EWBs. India’s chapters are improving sanitation and wa­­ter supply in Hyderabad and bioremediating industrial pollution in Tamil Nadu.

Rwanda
Alternative energy and pollution-reducing technologies developed by EWB-USA engineers could earn revenue-producing carbon credits that will boost village economies and train locals to sustain.

Thailand
EWB-USA active and proposed projects in include storm drainage for tsunami victim housing, sand filtration for a school’s drinking water and sun-pasteurized water purification.

Afghanistan
Students in Colorado University’s
Engineering for Developing Communities progiram (EDC) are creating a fuel briquette business in Kabul to employ street children and young adults.

Palestine
EWB chapter members in Palestine and
Israel in June will work on a project to build modular sustainable housing in Bethlehem. Mediterranean-area chapters will meet in Cyprus for fi rst time in April.

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